Given that the April 1973 photo that Rob Ketcherside found and posted to Flickr was originally taken for a real estate company, that the hospital that now surrounds the location of the photo – Marion Street and Boren Avenue in Seattle – appears to have been under construction at the time, and that the parking lot shown here is no longer, we’d have to presume that somebody was scouting this corner to buy, sell or broker. What do you see here?

Hi Ab2, That Dodge caught my eye, along with the Valiant and the T-Bird with “Chicago” wheel covers. The Dodge wagon was one of the many cars my old man had to pull our travel trailers, and if I remember, it also failed miserably. I think I learned some new swear words from my dad with that car. (certainly not the cars fault)

The Buick Skylark caught my eye. Not only was it the model that I took drivers training in, my father just bought a one owner,72,000 mile ’68 custom coupe (350 4bl). I changed the water pump for him and the casting date was ’68.

I cheated and blew the picture up; appears to be a 1963 or 1964 Grand Prix with its unique back window behind the Thunderbird on the left; there’s a 1967 Ford Fairlane between the 1967 Bonneville and Dodge wagon; a 1966 Buick Wildcat beside the 1970 LTD with a 1968 big Chevrolet beside it to finish out the row; on the right row next to the truck with the camper shell appears to be a 1969-70 Galaxie 500 or XL sportsroof